The anchor for the CNE's roller coaster, "Crazy Mouse". Image via: The Toronto Star
- Attention sculptors: North American Midway Entertainment has found that cellophane wrapping woodblocks in cellophane is more secure than nailing it together. This wood is used as roller coaster under-girdling. [The Toronto Star]
- Walter Robinson really likes Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron’s show at the Met. These portraits are a little romantic for our taste—her portraits are sometimes blurred in a way that seems cloying—but Robinson notes we aren’t the only people who have felt this way. [Artspace Magazine]
- John Yau has some really smart insights on the Ken Price show. A favorite: “There is something stiff and flat-footed about the drawings, which I am sure Price was aware of, but which didn’t deter him from drawing every day. The fact that he was unembarrassed by his draftsmanship goes a long way toward explaining how adventuresome he could be, especially in clay.” [Hyperallergic]
- Pompeii is in need of some serious conservation. So much so, that Unesco has warned Italy that it will be placed on the “World Heritage in Danger” list if steps to conserve it aren’t taken. Apparently overflowing water from house gutters is causing the detachment of wall frescoes and damage to the mosaics. [The Art Newspaper]
- Anybody need a house in Florida with a water park? Celine Dion’s selling hers for 72.5 million. [Newslook]
- The Cooper Hewitt Museum is now collecting code. The museum has bought Planetary, an iPad application that visualizes music as planets in space. Drafts of the code were put in a “curatorial folder” and are available to be downloaded, replicated, and modified by the public. [Cooper-Hewitt]
- Rising rents in San Francisco are forcing galleries out of its downtown district. Four dealers have moved to Lower Potrero Hill. [The Art Newspaper]
- Zaha Hadid is among 45 international architects that will participate in the Kazakhstan expo 2017 themed around alternative energy. If we are to believe the balloon filled mock-ups, the expo has no qualms wasting helium. [Design Boom]
